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Democratic Erosion Consortium @demerosiondec.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you to @mikealbertus.bsky.social for the opportunity to reflect on and discuss our work in this Q&A.

You can learn more about our work and our new dataset here: democratic-erosion.org/about/

Michael Albertus @mikealbertus.bsky.social · 6h

My interview with Democratic Erosion Consortium Directors @robertblair.bsky.social, Laura Paler, Jessica Gottlieb, and Julie Anne Weaver on their *new global dataset* on democracy! And on how to measure and understand democracy today, in the US & abroad

michaelalbertus.substack.com/p/q-and-a-wi...

Q&A with Directors of the Democratic Erosion Consortium

How their work helps us understand democracy & democratic erosion in the US and globally

michaelalbertus.substack.com

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 4h

What are you doing Thursday Nov 13? This panel on survey methods for measuring "rare traits" seems v. important especially if we think small numbers of people sometimes have outsize influence on politics.

The speakers appear to be Bluesky-less, but I'll tag the moderator @mattgraham.bsky.social!

PA-NJ AAPOR @panjaapor.bsky.social · 7h

Rare traits like support for violence, conspiracy beliefs, and unsafe health behaviors are really hard to measure! On Thursday November 13, learn from experts about the problem and solutions.

Free for students and AAPOR members, $5 for others. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-rare-t...

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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 4h

nice coverage of our APSR article in The Print today!

“Children are learning to fight fake news. Study shows classrooms help"

theprint.in/feature/biha...

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 8h

For our next spotlight on EGAP work in #LatinAmerica, check out this brief from John Marshall, Horacio Larreguy & @asimpser.bsky.social w/ José Ramón Enríquez! Their study asks how non-partisan social media ad campaigns can improve electoral accountability.

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Brief 81: How non-partisan social media ad campaigns can improve electoral accountability – EGAP

EGAP researchers: John Marshall, Horacio Larreguy

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David Broockman @dbroockman.bsky.social · 1d

The Berkeley Center for American Democracy is hiring a predoc next year to work with @gabelenz.bsky.social @hrendleman.bsky.social Cecilia Mo & me. Deadline Jan 30.

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05187

Junior or Assistant Specialist - Department of Political Science

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨

➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms

hopeful findings👇🏽

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 2d

10 Things to Know About Randomization buff.ly/XpyK3MU #EGAPMethodsGuide

10 Things to Know About Randomization – EGAP

En Français

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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 6d

Just posted a new review paper I co-authored with @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social. It is prepared for the Annual Review of Political Science. Comments welcome!

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ixtd6...

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Jonathan Nagler @jonathannagler.bsky.social · 6d

Proud to have worked on this paper with @tiagoventura.bsky.social, Bernhard Clemen von Hohenberg, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, and Mabdalena Wojcieszak: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... .

Survey Professionalism: New Evidence from Web Browsing Data | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core

Survey Professionalism: New Evidence from Web Browsing Data

www.cambridge.org

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Nico Ajzenman @nicolasajz.bsky.social · 6d

🍁🍁Hello! We hiring in the junior market! 🍁🍁

Apply to work with us at McGill's Econ department!

Full ad: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

EJM - Econ Job Market

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Lauren Prather @laurenrprather.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to share the launch of my new center at UCSD focused on trust and transparency in U.S. elections. We will be supporting research on election administration and voter confidence through research-practice partnerships. More to come! today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...

UC San Diego Launches Nonpartisan Center to Build Trust in US Elections

The Center for Transparent and Trusted Elections, with the support of a $2.5 million grant from the Election Trust Initiative, will test new ways to strengthen public confidence in U.S. elections acro...

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 7d

This week, we are spotlighting a policy brief from Danilo Freire & @umbertomig.bsky.social w/ David Skarbek. Their study, conducted across 10 countries in #LatinAmerica asks which institutional facets of climate change policy local elites favor the most.

Read more:

Brief 72: Which Climate Mitigation Policies do Local Elites Support? – EGAP

EGAP Researchers: Danilo Freire and Umberto Mignozzetti

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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 9d

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

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Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social · 9d

Excited to co-chair the Migration Politics section with @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social at the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast. Submit your abstracts by Nov 7!

Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 9d

This is your heads up that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast is a month from now (Nov 7)! I'm chairing the Migration Politics section w/ @aalrababah.bsky.social and we're excited to receive contributions from across the discipline🕺🏻

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 14d

▶️ Migration Politics

👉🏽 Section chairs: @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social & @aalrababah.bsky.social

📢 Our section section brings together research on the politics of migration, including migration flows, government policies to manage mobility, and the politics of forced displacement. >>>

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 9d

Celebrating small wins this morning: Our new R package, geocausal, just broke 8,000 downloads. If you're interested in causal inference with spatio-temporal data, you can grab it on Github or CRAN

github.com/mmukaigawara...

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 9d

10 Things to Know About Mechanisms buff.ly/bivPRvu #EGAPMethodsGuide

10 Things to Know About Mechanisms – EGAP

En Français

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations to all participants & partners who attended the LatAm Regional Hub Meeting for a successful event. Thank you for advancing evidence-based solutions on crime, environment & governance! ¡Gracias por avanzar en soluciones basadas en evidencia sobre crimen, medio ambiente y gobernanza!

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 10d

💡REMINDER— EGAP's 2025 Innovation Grants 🚀

We are still accepting proposals for innovations pushing the boundaries of governance and politics research. Please share with your networks!

⏰ Apply by: October 31, 2025.

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

www.lse.ac.uk

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 13d

It's Day 2! The Latin America Regional Hub Meeting continues at GRADE Peru 🇵🇪. Discussions today focus on policing, environmental governance, and innovative strategies to strengthen democracy in Latin America.

Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 14d

Day 1 of our Latin American Regional Hub Meeting begins at
GRADE Peru with Wyss Academy for Nature organized by @jvaldivi.bsky.social, Fernando Fernández, @santiagotobon.bsky.social & Leopoldo Fergusson. Two days of debate on crime, environment & governance! #EGAPLatAm #SolucionesPoliticas

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 14d

This month we are featuring EGAP research in #LatinAmerica!

First up, work from @santiagotobon.bsky.social investigating the impact of “place-based” interventions to reduce crime in #Colombia. His paper is co-written w/ @chrisblattman.bsky.social, Donald P. Green & Daniel Ortega.

Priority Theme Spotlight: Place-based interventions with Santiago Tobón – EGAP

Author: Max Méndez Beck

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Mauricio Romero @marome1.bsky.social · 14d

We (Econ at ITAM) are hiring:econjobmarket.org/positions/11841
Pay is competitive with the US (in absolute terms), working language is English, virtually no service work, spend ~80% of your time in research, and you get to live in one of the coolest cities in the world.
#econsky

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Donghyun Danny Choi @dhdannychoi.bsky.social · 15d

So happy to see this out! We caution against excessive optimism that the opposition will restore countries back to their democratic trajectories after electoral victory. Weakened institutions and the memory of repression makes it tempting to continue rather than buck the trend of autocratization.

Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 15d

Conventional wisdom says that, once in power, opposition parties will return backsliding countries to the democratic path. In reality, not only is this not true, but it is not uncommon for the opposition to adopt the autocratic habits of the regime they replaced.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 15d

In the Calgary area this week? I’ll be at @ucalgary.bsky.social giving two talks.

The first one with the Latin America Cities and Societies Group on the governance of homelessness.

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